This distinction is important when understanding the relationship between a programming environment or IDE interactive development environment like VS Code, Xcode, Eclipse, or JetBrains, and the online service GitHub. Also: How to use GitHub's AI coding assistant for free and why it's worth a try In this analogy, the programming environment VS Code is like Photoshop. It's where you create and modify code. GitHub is the cloud service. It's like Google Photos, in that
